Government of Uganda received financing from the International Development Association (IDA), the Global Financing Facility in Support of Every Woman Every Child (GFF) and the Swedish Government forimplementation of Uganda Reproductive Maternal and Child Health Service Improvement Project. Part of the Financing is to be used to support training of Health Workers in key disciplines in Reproductive,

According to the 1995 Constitution and the Health Service Act 2001, the Health Service Commission (HSC) is the body that is mandated to handle human resource issues of Health Workers under Central Government Institutions.

As part of the comprehensive restructuring of Ministries, the Ministry of Health (MoH) was restructured. However, the MoH again made a request to Ministry of Public Service (MoPS) to re-align its structure to meet its objectives.

The re-aligned structure was approved. This necessitates implementation of the approved structure.